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"The memory deficits many women experience during and after pregnancy are pretty much like the modest deficits you’d find when comparing healthy 20-year-olds with healthy 60-year- olds."

Dr Henry and co-investigator Professor Peter Rendell, of the Australian Catholic University, compared the memory performances of more than 1,000 pregnant women, mothers and healthy non-pregnant females involved in 14 studies around the world.

They found that pregnant women were significantly impaired on some, but not all, measures of memory.

They experienced most difficulty with memory tasks that relied on "executive cognitive control" - those involving novelty or significant effort.
"Regular, well-practised memory tasks - such as remembering phone numbers of friends and family members - are unlikely to be affected," Prof Rendell said.
"It’s a different story, though, when you have to remember new phone numbers or people’s names, or hold in mind several pieces of information, such as when multi-tasking."

The work, published in the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, is one of the first to confirm the suspicion from endless subjective reports that "baby brain" is a real phenomenon.’

The Scotsman - February 07, 2008

You mean the impairment was only supposed to be temporary??? I found that I was a little forgetful during pregnancy but after giving birth, when I found out that
sleep was supposedly optional, I really needed to double check everything.
My son is 10 and I didn’t start real recovery until he turned 7 or 8. I forget which.